Regressive childhood memory replaces lost potential with dreams of non-existence

Evidence

On daydreams and fantasies. They show lack of character and passivity. One imagines that something has happened to upset the mechanism of necessity. One’s own initiative has become free. Everything is easy. One can do whatever one wants, and one wants a whole series of things which at present one lacks. It is basically the present turned on its head which is projected into the future. Everything repressed is unleashed. On the contrary, it is necessary to direct one’s attention violently towards the present as it is, if one wishes to transform it. Pessimism of the intelligence, optimism of the will. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2194 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Alzheimer’s patients return to a generic, unowned childhood rather than their own — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1377; Precocious maturation exacts a later psychological price in renewed immaturity; Daydreaming substitutes fantasy for the disciplined transformation of present reality — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2194 (+1 more)

Related

• The latent dream is a fantasy-satisfaction, not merely a disguised desire (similarity 0.85)
• Daydreaming substitutes fantasy for the disciplined transformation of present reality (similarity 0.84)
• Adolescent daydreaming is a narcissistic compensation for felt inadequacy (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Daydreaming substitutes fantasy for the disciplined transformation of present reality #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2194
• Fantasy thinking substitutes passive imagined futures for real present transformation #corroborates (0.80)